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History of Matchstick Puzzles
These are derived from matchstick puzzles popular from the time when candles and gas lighting meant that almost everyone carried a small box of matches with them. As a pastime, many would know of examples of these lateral thinking puzzles.

We can supply pre-made kits of matchstick puzzles with full instructions and safe sticks - they make an ideal activity for a club! Contact us for more details of prices and ordering details.

If you want to give these puzzles to children to try, please avoid using live matches. Toothpicks are much safer!

Solutions are given to each puzzle but remember - you will get much more from solving the puzzle yourself rather than from just being told the solution, and they do all have a solution.

The puzzles are not all solved in the same way, they require a bit of lateral thinking and in fact are a good way of exercising different parts of your brain and different thinking styles.

To see the solutions, simply click on the puzzle title

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15 to 10
From this arrangement of 15 matches, remove 6 to leave 10 - (puzzle supplied by Bill Cramp)

4 Squares to Many
Starting each time with this arrangement:Move 2 matches to make 7 squaresRemove 2 matches and leave 2 squares Move 3 matches and leave 3 squares Remove 3 matches and move 2 to form 3 squares Move 4 matches and form 3 squares Remove 1 match and move 4 to make 11 squares

6 plus 4 = 4
Can anyone solve this puzzle from Gabriel, moving only 1 matchstick?So far we have 3 correct solutions posted, if you have an alternative solution please post it in the forum by clicking on puzzle title above